Individuals must conduct themselves appropriately with children who are on campus and/or who participate in university-related programs, take reasonable measures to ensure their safety, and report ...

In a small, makeshift room in a refugee camp in Erbil, home to more than 8,500 refugees, 12-year-old Dîlan* sits quietly, lost in thought. He often keeps to himself, still carrying the pain of being ...

Parenting expectations are often unreasonably high—and so is the number of people who believe that kids can't handle anything on their own. Passersby too often see an unsupervised child and assume ...

A child is brought to the emergency room with an injury. Was it caused by abuse? When investigated by the police, hospital staff, and child protective services (CPS), each entity may view the same ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The Kern County Department of Human Services announced three public listening sessions to receive feedback from community members who have interacted with the county’s ...

Scattered clothes, alcoholic beverage containers, drug paraphernalia and children’s toys covered the floor and furniture in the darkened living room as child protective services workers walked inside.

Mandated reporter training often tells clinicians to report first and ask questions later. But support—not surveillance—is what actually keeps families safe.

“We’re Not Protecting Children. We’re Recycling Their Trauma.” That was the title of a recent opinion piece by policy researcher Mathangi Swaminathan on the education news website The74, explaining ...

[In state’s child protection statute and/or where “abuse and neglect” and/or “best interests of the child” are defined, add] A parent has the fundamental right to direct the care and upbringing of the ...

WHEN two child protection officers are seen dragging a young girl across a city bus park by her hair and arms, it does not look good for the agency for which ...